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1886–1902. 1917–1919. Rank. Surgeon (MHS) Major (USA) Joseph James Kinyoun (November 25, 1860 – February 14, 1919) was an American physician and the founder of the United States' Hygienic Laboratory, the predecessor of the National Institutes of Health. [1] His career was nearly ended by his insistence, while serving as head of the Marine ...
Onesimus (Bostonian) Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s [1]) was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts. His birth name is unknown. He was enslaved and, in 1706, was given to the New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who renamed him.
The Rabbinical Seminary International (RSI) is a rabbinical seminary located in Elmsford, New York. [1] RSI was founded in 1955 by the Hungarian Hasidic rabbi and Kabbalist Dr. Joseph H. Gelberman, a graduate of City University of New York and Yeshiva University, who is also known as a pioneer in inter-religious dialogue. [2]
Joseph D. Zuckerman is an American orthopedic surgeon specializing in shoulder, hip and knee replacement surgery. [1] Zuckerman is the surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital for Joint Diseases of NYU Langone Medical Center New York University Langone Medical Center. [1] He is the Walter A.L. Thompson Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Chair of the ...
Criminal penalty. 20 years imprisonment. Joseph Konopka (born June 24, 1976), better known by his self-invented alias Dr. Ch@os (typically spelled Dr. Chaos by the media), is an American citizen who served 16 years of a 20-year prison sentence for arson, vandalism, and possessing chemical weapons. [1] In 2003 in Illinois, he pleaded guilty to ...
In 1721, Boston experienced its worst outbreak of smallpox (also known as variola ). 5,759 people out of around 10,600 [5] in Boston were infected and 844 were recorded to have died between April 1721 and February 1722. [4] [3] The outbreak motivated Puritan minister Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston to variolate hundreds of ...
Josef Rudolf Mengele ([ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II.Nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel), he performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in ...
The New Testament mentions Luke briefly a few times, and the Epistle to the Colossians refers to him as a physician (from Greek for 'one who heals'); thus he is thought to have been both a physician and a disciple of Paul. Since the early years of the faith, Christians have regarded him as a saint.